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Exhibitions
An exhibition is a selection of items that are interpreted and presented as a visual and narrative experience![](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/1846.2e16d0ba.fill-140x105.format-webp.webp)
1846: Inventing Americana at the John Carter Brown Library (2023)
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Simon Bolivar, The Libertador: A Virtual Experience in the Bromsen Room (2023)
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Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas (2020)
Curated by José Montelongo, 2024
Highlighted projects
Projects include different types of aggregated materials, including catalogs from past exhibitsJulie Greer Johnson, 1988
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Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana (Digital Catalogue, 2019)
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Printer's Devils :: Printer's Delights (Digital Catalogue, 2015)
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Global Americana: The Wider Worlds of a Singular Collection (Digital Catalogue, 2017)
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